Science

Less of	More of
Instructional Strategies
Step-by-step prescriptive lab investigations	Inquiry-based Labs
Process skill taught in isolation (measurement, observations, hypothesizing, etc.)	Process skills taught as needed along with content
Focus on facts, processes, lists	Focus on conceptual connections to energy, properties, patterns, change, models, systems
Focus on activity	Focus on learning objective and enduring understanding
Focus on completion of assignments	Focus on discourse and reflection
Driven by notes and worksheets	Driven by student processing and sharing via interactive notebooking
Labs and activities wrap up with questions and summary of what happened	Labs and activities wrap up with Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Conclusions
Lessons, labs and activities are unconnected	Lesson, labs and activities connected to concepts, one another, and real-world problems.
Long lectures delivered by teachers	Shorter mini-lectures delivered by teacher, other experts, students who have already mastered content.
Students all work on one longer lab	Students work on multiple hands-on learning experiences that may be completed in various sequences and repeated as needed for conceptual understanding